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Excerpt from Shakespeare's Tragedy of Macbeth as Produced by Edwin Booth: Adapted From the Text of the Cambridge Editors, With Introductory Remarks, &C
Did you not speak 5 The dark colorlng, glven by the actor to these abrupt speeches, makes the scene awful and tremendous to the auditor! The wonderful expression of heartful horror, which Garrick felt when he showed his bloody hands, can only be conceived and described by those who saw him!' The banquet scene in the third aéi, IS the scene, perhaps, of all other where most Macbeths and Lady Macbeths fail. 'this admirable scene,' as Davies tells us, was greatly supported by the speaking terrors of Garrick's look hnd action. Mrs. Pritchard showed admirable art in endeav oring to hide Macbeth's frenzy from the observation of the guests, by draw ing their attention to conviviality. She smiled on one, whispered to another, and distantly saluted a third in short, she practiced every possible artifice to hide the transaction that passed between her husband and the vision his disturbed imagination had raised. Her reprovmg and angry looks, which glanced toward Macbeth, at the same time were mixed with marks' of inward vexation and uneasiness. When, at last, as if unable to support her feelings any longer, she rose 'from her seat, and seized his arm, and, with a half-whisper of terror, said Are you a man 1 she assumed a look of Such anger, indignation, and contempt, as can not be surpassed.' Notwithstanding all that Davies has said of Mrs. Pritchard's Lady Mah beth, yet her successor, Mrs. Siddons, seems to have excited far greater en thusiasm. 'mrs. Doran tells us, 'imagined the heroine of this most tragic of tragedies to be a delicate blonde, who ruled by her intelleé't,' and subdued by her beauty, but with whom no one feeling of common general nature was congenial a woman prompt for wickedness, but swiftly possessed by remorse; one who is horror-stricken for herself and for the precious husband, who, more robust and less sensitive, plunges deeper into crime, and is less moved by any sense of compassion or sorrow.'
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